Digital Rhetorics

While thoroughly theorized in rhetorical studies, the body primarily is understood as or through text. Following a literature review of the body in rhetorical scholarship, this article argues that the situated, concrete body is integral to ideological identity through its function as doxastic warrant in enthymematical argumentation. The article finally outlines a rhetorical-ethnographic orientation for investigating the points of expression for a doxastic body of a specific field.

This study presents the findings of a cross-institutional survey examining how students in hospitality education programs use artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The analysis focuses on patterns of generative AI adoption across academic work, research activities and career preparation, while also assessing perceived educational value, ethical boundaries, and institutional support. Results highlight both the opportunities of AI as a learning companion, enhancing comprehension, confidence and efficiency, as well as the challenges posed by limited training, uneven access, and concerns over overreliance. The study provides empirical analysis on how AI is reshaping learning practices and formulates recommendations for integrating AI responsibly into hospitality education and professional development.

In recent years, rhetorical scholars have turned to study the materiality of rhetoric as well as the rhetoricity of material, often introducing a posthumanist or anti-anthropocentric stance rejecting mind-body dualism(s), while often also turning to affirmative frameworks as an alternative to criticism. Introducing the Nordic Waste scandal in Denmark in 2023, we point to the risk of toxically affirming the perspective of environmentally harmful corporations in rhetoric centering materiality and affirmation.

The paper will discuss the stylistic aspects of the poem The
Chimney Sweeper by William Blake and how they have helped to
make the poem powerful in terms of emotional appeal and theme.
The paper is centered on simple and child language used by Blake,
Keywords:
bringing out the innocent nature of the young speaker. It further
The Chimney Sweeper, stylistic analysis, William Blake, innocence, oppression, social criticism.
examines how the rhyme scheme, imagery and symbolism in the
poem form a great contrast of the innocence and the harshness of
the exploitation of a child. The repetition and the religious
allusions brought by Blake also contribute to the emotionality, as
the author demonstrates the pain of the child and the false promise
made by society. Using such stylistic devices, Blake reveals the
meanness of the world of child labourers and gives very powerful
message concerning oppression, social injustice and loss of
innocence.

The rapid expansion of digital communication platforms has transformed how individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds interact. While computer-mediated communication (CMC) enables unprecedented global connectivity, the design features of these platforms significantly shape the nature, clarity, and interpretation of language use. This study examines how platform design elements-including interface structure, algorithmic mediation, affordances (e.g., emojis, reactions), and message constraints-influence intercultural language interaction and contribute to misinterpretation. Drawing on sociolinguistic and communication theories, the research identifies key mechanisms through which platform architecture mediates meaning construction across cultural boundaries. A mixed-method approach was adopted, combining survey data from 120 participants across multiple cultural groups with discourse analysis of online interactions on selected platforms. The findings reveal that design features such as limited contextual cues, asynchronous communication, and standardized reaction systems often amplify ambiguity and cultural misalignment. Additionally, algorithmic filtering and content prioritization can distort communicative intent by selectively presenting information. The study contributes to existing literature by linking technological affordances directly to intercultural miscommunication patterns. It highlights that misinterpretation is not solely a linguistic or cultural issue but is deeply embedded in platform design choices. The paper concludes by recommending more culturally adaptive interface designs and enhanced contextual signaling tools to reduce misunderstanding in global digital communication environments.

Digital communication has undergone a significant transformation in the last twenty years, particularly evident in the manner in which young individuals convey emotions through text-based messaging. Emojis, the little pictographic characters, are now integrated into nearly all mobile keyboards and have become a commonplace element of daily digital communication, frequently serving as substitutes for the voice intonation and facial expressions that text alone cannot convey. This exploratory study poses a straightforward inquiry: to what degree can emojis influence the perception of WhatsApp messages by their recipients? Drawing on Media Richness Theory and paralanguage research, we administered a quantitative survey to 26 Generation Z WhatsApp users at Fatima Jinnah Women University, recruited through snowball sampling. Two hypotheses guided the inquiry: first, that emojis meaningfully enhance the perceived emotional intensity of messages (H1); and second, that messages sent without any emojis tend to be read as less engaging and emotionally flat (H2). Both hypotheses received support. An overwhelming 84.62% of respondents used emojis daily, 65.38% agreed that emojis make their messages more emotionally expressive, and 84.62% felt that emoji-enriched conversations were simply more engaging. When asked to describe messages without emojis, many participants characterised them as cold, overly formal, or even rude. Interestingly, 30.77% of participants had at some point misread the meaning of an emoji in a conversation, a finding worth taking seriously given how frequently these symbols are used. The study is exploratory, and its sample is small, but it adds to a growing literature on the paralinguistic work that emojis do in digital communication. Directions for future research and practical implications are discussed.

Digital communication has undergone a significant transformation in the last twenty years, particularly evident in the manner in which young individuals convey emotions through text-based messaging. Emojis, the little pictographic characters, are now integrated into nearly all mobile keyboards and have become a commonplace element of daily digital communication, frequently serving as substitutes for the voice intonation and facial expressions that text alone cannot convey. This exploratory study poses a straightforward inquiry: to what degree can emojis influence the perception of WhatsApp messages by their recipients? Drawing on Media Richness Theory and paralanguage research, we administered a quantitative survey to 26 Generation Z WhatsApp users at Fatima Jinnah Women University, recruited through snowball sampling. Two hypotheses guided the inquiry: first, that emojis meaningfully enhance the perceived emotional intensity of messages (H1); and second, that messages sent without any emojis tend to be read as less engaging and emotionally flat (H2). Both hypotheses received support. An overwhelming 84.62% of respondents used emojis daily, 65.38% agreed that emojis make their messages more emotionally expressive, and 84.62% felt that emoji-enriched conversations were simply more engaging. When asked to describe messages without emojis, many participants characterised them as cold, overly formal, or even rude. Interestingly, 30.77% of participants had at some point misread the meaning of an emoji in a conversation, a finding worth taking seriously given how frequently these symbols are used. The study is exploratory, and its sample is small, but it adds to a growing literature on the paralinguistic work that emojis do in digital communication. Directions for future research and practical implications are discussed.

The study of campaign effects generally focuses on the strategies, tools and use of agenda in political communication and its aftermath effects. The assembly election of West Bengal, 2021 has seen the most drastic conundrum from its collaboration. ‘Left’ leaning to ‘Right’ Wing Perspectives. The dialogues, discourses and especially the rhetoric of the contestants evoke multiple emotions. This study entails the media’s preference for evoking and selection of framing for the audiences. Discourse analysis of media coverage have been used as a tool in order to provide indicative confirmation of this view.

In this article, we contribute to scholarship on visibility and rhetoric by examining the way in which photographs published in march 1965 issues of life magazine functioned rhetorically to (1) evoke common humanity by capturing moments of embodiment and enactment that challenged the established images of blacks in the minds of whites and held up for scrutiny assumptions and power relationships that had long been taken for granted; (2) evoke common humanity by creating recognition of others through particularity; and (3) challenge taken-for-granted ideas of democracy, reminding viewers that a large gap existed between abstract political concepts like democracy and what was actually occurring in american streets. We conclude by considering the transformative capacity of photojournalism as it mediates between the universal and the particular, and enables viewers to experience epiphanic moments when issues, ideas, habits, and yearnings are crystallized into a single recognizable image. The last 20 years have witnessed a proliferation of museums, public art sculptures, monuments, oral history archives, retrospective books, heritage tours, and other commemorative activities related to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. As historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage suggests, ''power and access to it are central to the creation and propagation of historical memory''; however, it was not until the 1960s that blacks commanded ''the political power necessary to insist on a more inclusive historical memory for the South'' (''No Deed but Memory'' 22

We argue here that data literacies and capabilities are an integral part of data justice. Based on focus group data collected as part of a 3-year empirical project research project, we find that citizens remain unaware of key aspects of the digital ecosystem, which exacerbate the power imbalance between big technology (data processors) companies and citizens (data subjects). Citizens feel concerned about the way it is operating, they do not feel confident enough to be able to address that. We find that "networks of literacy" among friends, colleagues, and trusted organizations are crucial for citizens' capabilities. These networks influence citizens' ability to convert their available means into capabilities to support civic engagement and their communities.

Drawing on the case study of a river bridge in Bangladesh, this article shows how and why linguistic circulation is indispensable to infrastructural populism that relies primarily on spectacular visibility. The focus here is the Padma Bridge, named after the river it spans, which was inaugurated by Sheikh Hasina amid much fanfare in 2022. Its emergence as, what I call, "populist infrastructure" dates back more than a decade. After the World Bank voiced its concern over corruption and decided to withdraw funding in 2013, the Canadian Supreme Court sided with the individuals sued by the World Bank who were suspected of bribing Bangladesh government officials. The Supreme Court dismissed the evidence of corruption as rumor and hearsay. In 2019, multiple people in Bangladesh were killed in mob violence based on a rumor that the Padma Bridge needed children's heads for timely completion and that child kidnappers were out to capture children as sacrificial offerings. Focusing on the different iterations of "the people" that were activated around the bridge, this article attends to the mob as a fugitive political formation that comes together through language and realizes, but also disrupts, the promise of postcolonial populism.

Prior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in multicolored acrostics, historiated initials, and varying sizes of script. In this essay, we argue that the knowledge of this history compels us to orient our reading and writing pedagogy newly to the page, particularly its design elements: not just images and text but the entire mise-en-page, the layout, the arrangement, and the spaces for annotation and interaction. Digital texts—particularly within development of Web 2.0 text technologies— have reinvigorated our attention to the page as a site of multimodality. In terms of modal complexity, the digital page is multimodal in ways the printed page cannot be: in its speed and scale of activity a...

In this essay, I examine how eating operates as a feminist rhetorical act using digital food diaries as a case study. Tracing digital food diaries tagged with the hashtag #WhatIEatInADayAsAFatPerson, I argue that when employed by fat vloggers, eating operates as performative symbolic resistance (PSR). Drawing from Alicia K. Hatcher's PSR analytical framework, I examine how fat bodies, embodied eating, and online visibility work together to push back against normative diet narratives and take up space online to promote a feminist agenda. This work builds on scholarship in feminist food rhetorics, critical eating studies, and fat studies to expand our definitions of feminist activism online. Through this analysis, I argue that eating is a rhetorical act which changes depending on the body and place in which it happens.

This article examines youth slang as a dynamic force driving language change in the digital era, focusing on the transition of informal expressions from street-based interaction to online communication platforms. With the rapid expansion of social media, messaging applications, and digital communities, youth slang has gained unprecedented visibility and influence, accelerating processes of lexical innovation, semantic shift, and pragmatic change. Drawing on sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic perspectives, the study explores how young speakers creatively manipulate language to construct social identity, signal group membership, and negotiate meaning in digital spaces. Particular attention is paid to the role of multimodality, including emojis, abbreviations, and hybrid language forms, in reshaping contemporary slang usage. The article also discusses how digitally mediated youth slang contributes to the diffusion of non-standard forms into mainstream language, challenging traditional norms of correctness and standardization. By analyzing authentic examples from online discourse, the study highlights the interaction between technological affordances and linguistic creativity. The findings suggest that youth slang functions not only as a marker of generational identity but also as a significant catalyst for ongoing language change, reflecting broader social, cultural, and technological transformations in modern communication.

Esse texto foi escrito — combinando ideias novas a trechos e
ideias de outros escritos meus — especialmente para um dos
encontros do Grupo de Estudo: Políticas, Retóricas e Histórias
da Visualidade, uma iniciativa do Podcast Visual+mente e
o grupo de pesquisa do CNPq “Visualidade e Linguagem”.

Digital rhetoric is in a "paradigmatic aftermath" from Big Tech platformization. The implicit paradigm for digital rhetoric is the ecological model, but platformization has revealed how fragile ecologies are. This article argues that the ecology paradigm will be better suited to address digitality if we as a sub eld systematize that fragility more explicitly. To make this argument, the article revisits the dominant scholarly paradigm of the rhetorical situation to parse a lineage of goals and heuristics. From there, the article considers the disastrous and violent e ects of Big Tech logics and technics and what those effects have been on both traditionally rhetorical aims as well as paradigmatic e orts and theories. Ultimately, the article draws from the Black feminist "data healing" strategies that Neema Githere's Data Healing Workbook theorizes to offer an ecology paradigm wherein repair is an always available response for thinking from and with collapse.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2025.2590769#abstract

Although the majority of design products display aesthetic qualities, designers work usually in ways that are rhetorical, that is, they produce a material artifact to influence diverse publics. Design thinking and making skills backed up by knowledge and theories from other disciplines such as the liberal arts and social sciences will become increasingly important for graphic design to progress and stay relevant. In this paper we address the intersection between rhetoric, semiosis, and design, and argue that rhetoric and design are closely intertwined and that the discipline of Graphic Design is quintessentially visual rhetorical practice. After all, does not the designer invent a compelling visual argument, arrange it by design using manifold devices of style and figures, and deliver it with effect and elegance? With thanks to David Peters and Rhonda Rubinstein for their assistance Graphic Design produces composite artifacts in diverse communicative form and media for a vast variety of situations. In today's world it is an omnipresent, aesthetic-rhetorical phenomenon, one that is culturally loaded. It has an influential presence in the public sphere and its products are made meaningful through culturally derived ways of seeing and understanding. People use graphic artifacts and all sorts of everyday objects in rhetorical ways, turning them into signs and symbols in the process. The Thames+Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers describes graphic design as a generic term for the activity of combining typography, illustration, photography and printing for purposes of persuasion, information or instruction. Also known as Visual Communication Design, Graphic Design ranges so widely in its shapes, functions, and audiences that we often fail to see its coherence or underlying structure. Despite producing work with unquestionable aesthetic qualities, designers work usually in ways that are rhetorical; that is, they produce material artifacts to influence or persuade diverse publics and thus act as a social amplifier of messages, trying to tell well what someone has to say. The practice of graphic design is a kaleidoscope of images, fonts, layout, and colour; of logos, brochures, and labels; of packaging, signage, and exhibits; of magazines, brochures, and displays; of ads, posters, and digital work. More complex and elaborate graphic projects such as corporate identities or orientation systems may require the collaboration of various specialists working together to produce a fitting visual result. Although designers configure symbolic imagery, great talent with graphic-making tools alone (such as typography, photography, illustration, layout and software programs) doesn't make you a designer because graphic design is not just about arranging and visualizing formal aspects of design. If the configuration of a visual artifact is not created to serve the needs of the intended public, it is useless, even if it is aesthetically pleasing. Graphic designers concern themselves with the meanings visual artifacts may acquire by their users. To create a design artifact that effectively addresses the intended audience, one has to identify issues of communication, analyze the situation, context, and audience, and then select the appropriate graphic configuration for the artifact. However, the great majority of literature on the field still fails to acknowledge the rhetorical richness so characteristic of this hybrid form of communication and expression and instead prefers to stress and applaud primarily its aesthetic characteristics. Graphic Design teaching today is mostly rooted in a professional model of tacit knowledge and technical skills rather than in a model of promoting knowledge and inquiry. If design wants to retain its relevance as a key player of visual practice it is indispensable that the excellence of this visuality be nurtured. Design thinking and making skills, backed up by knowledge and theories from other disciplines such as the liberal arts and social sciences, can gain enormous

Os políticos são uns retóricos dizse, querendo com isso significar que não serão lá grande coisa, que o que dizem não se escreve e que falam muito mas não dizem nada ou, pelo menos, que acertam pouco. Essa seria, aliás, a especial vocação da retórica: embrulhar num discurso enganoso palavras tão mansas e escorregadias que seduzissem o mais desconfiado. Um discurso de máfé e engenhosamente armadilhado para apanhar incautos. Mais coisa menos coisa, é esta a concepção de retórica que parece predominar ainda, não só na ciência, como também na filosofia, na política, nos negócios e até, porventura, no próprio relacionamento afectivo. Várias terão sido as razões que conduziram a este estado de coisas mas três delas justificam, talvez, um especial destaque. A primeira é amplamente conhecida e prende se com o atribulado contexto filosóficocultural em que a retórica emergiu. Mal tinha dado ainda os seus primeiros passos pela mão dos mais notáveis sofistas e já Platão a fustigava sem dó nem piedade, cortandolhe as asas filosóficas que só a posterior codificação aristotélica viria a devolver, ao reconhecerlhe um estatuto epistemológico no campo argumentativo análogo ao da dialéctica no campo demonstrativo. Mas a acusação platónica de que a Retórica não conduzia à verdade, quer por razões intrinsecamente teóricas, quer por não ser esse o desejo dos seus agentes, não deixaria nunca de a perseguir nos vinte e cinco séculos que se seguiram, chegando até nós como se de uma reprovável auréola éticoepistemológica se tratasse. A segunda razão devese ao facto de, com o passar dos tempos, a retórica ter sido espoliada da teoria da argumentação a que Aristóteles dedicou, praticamente, dois terços do seu tratado, ficando assim reduzida à elocução, a uma mera arte de dizer. É natural, portanto, que este esvaziamento disciplinar, acrescido dos exageros estilísticos a que conduziu, tenha deixado marcas difíceis de apagar, especialmente nos que ignoram ainda a reconfiguração a que a retórica foi submetida desde que Perelman e Toulmin publicaram, respectivamente, "Tratado da Argumentação" e "The Uses Of The

The paper titled 'Comparative literature, a pole apart thought in English literature' is a monographic artistic presentation describing, raising an interrogation toward the literatures around the continents for better production in the field of literature. From the chronological approach, there have been number of identifications enough and more for the humane in thought and the respect for the other as the mode of comparative literature. It has been maintained by the author how different thinkers of the continents put the know how into the stream of conscious presentation making it comparative literature as tying together the cosmopolitan community, which has been put in to presentation for the future generation to have a thought before they have their start.

In recent years, digital games have gone beyond being merely a tool for entertainment and have also been used to convey political and ideological messages. This study examines, through examples, how the interactive structures of games can directly influence players' decisions and perceptions and serve as a vehicle for propaganda.

This study explores the strategic logics and cultural factors influencing game-based marketing. Using a qualitative, exploratory multiple-case study, five diverse campaigns were analyzed through an original eight-dimensional framework rooted in gamification, branding, and engagement theory. The research proposes a typology of five brand-game archetypes: narrative-integrated, functional-instrumental, symbolic-immersive, app-based loyalty, and CSR-participatory. A key finding is the regional divergence in strategic emphasis: Central and Eastern European campaigns prominently feature educational and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) values, while Western examples prioritize entertainment and spectacle. The originality of this study lies in the introduction of a novel evaluative framework and a new typology of brand-game relationships, which bridges conceptual gaps and extends knowledge beyond the Western-centric focus of prior research. The purpose of this article is not only to advance theoretical understanding of gamification but also to provide practical guidelines for campaign design. The results may be useful for academics refining gamification theory, and for practitioners-particularly brand managers, digital strategists, and CSR specialists-who seek to develop culturally sensitive and strategically aligned campaigns. By positioning gamification as a strategic, culturally contingent marketing instrument, the study offers actionable insights into strengthening consumer engagement, brand loyalty, and long-term value creation.

A comunicação estratégica na era contemporânea transcende a tradicional sustentação oral para abranger um novo espectro de desafios e ferramentas. Este artigo, baseado em uma pesquisa bibliográfica aprofundada, revisita os pilares atemporais da retórica aristotélica: Logos, Ethos e Pathos e os reinterpreta sob o prisma das exigências atuais. O estudo detalha como a credibilidade se constrói através de um equilíbrio de elementos. O Logos exige rigor lógico e preparo, enquanto o Ethos é edificado pela sobriedade, postura e pelo uso consciente do silêncio. O artigo também enfatiza o poder da comunicação não-verbal e da autenticidade emocional como poderosos vetores de persuasão, integrando o Pathos de forma genuína. Além disso, a capacidade de estruturar uma narrativa envolvente é apresentada como crucial para a eficácia do discurso. A pesquisa aborda a influência disruptiva da tecnologia e da inteligência artificial na oratória moderna, destacando a importância da escrita na preparação de um discurso oral convincente. Um aspecto central é o papel de responsabilidade do comunicador na luta contra a desinformação. Por fim, o artigo amplia a aplicação dessas habilidades para o mundo executivo, onde a comunicação estratégica se revela uma ferramenta essencial de liderança e fomento ao diálogo construtivo. A conclusão é clara: dominar a comunicação estratégica, que une precisão técnica e humanidade, não é apenas uma vantagem, mas um imperativo para o profissional do século XXI.

Semioticians perceive signs not in seclusion but as an integral part of sign systems. They examine how meanings are constructed, being interested not only with communication but also with the structure and sustenance of phenomenon. Structuralists aim to chronicle the overall system of signs as 'languages'. Nonetheless, for this study , we would be viewing the structuralist approach, which is involved with the constitutional elements within an autonomous system, exploring to analyse the use of signs in definite social situations. Emoji, the omnipresent digital representation that appear in text messages, whatsapp and other social media platforms are affluent in the social, cultural and economic scenario of the contemporary world. It definitely enhances and contributes to the realm of sign system.

En las publicaciones anteriores (Parte 1 y Parte 2), revisamos algunos ejemplos de herramientas y asistentes potenciados con Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para generar texto desde ideas iniciales, editar un escrito en su gramática y estilo, compilar referencias, armar citas, y evaluar el plagio. En la última publicación de esta serie revisaremos algunas consideraciones pedagógicas y éticas para reflexionar sobre el uso responsable de las herramientas y aplicaciones para producir y evaluar la escritura universitaria.

Master of Arts "Consummation" was the one term about which Kenneth Burke wasn't particularly longwinded-odd considering his claim that it was the apex of his theory of form. Perhaps Burke never explained exactly what consummation was because he himself was never clear on the subject, as he told John Woodcock in an interview toward the end of his career. Burke began conceptualizing his theory of form early on-in his 20s-and published it in his first critical book, Counter-Statement, in 1931. At that time, Burke's theory of form had already taken one evolutionary step-from selfexpression, with the focus on the artist, to communication, with the focus on the psychology of the reader. Communication was to Burke an "arousing and fulfilling of desires." However, by the 60s, Burke introduced us to a new term which he only used a handful of times in his entire corpus: consummation. This paper attempts to define consummation by exploring Burke's theory of form and looking to his correspondences with friends and scholars. It offers two answers: first, consummation is the act of a reader responding to a writer in critical conversation; second, consummation is the ultimate cathartic achievement. Both play an important civic role. Using current science regarding the gut in connection with emotional purgation, this paper treats seriously Burke's essay "The Thinking of the Body (Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature)" and his ideas regarding the "Demonic Trinity": micturition, defecation, and parturition, explaining Burkean catharsis as it differs from, deepens, and extends Aristotelian catharsis. What can we learn from what Burke meant by consummation? That the symbolic world is much more significant to our survival than we may realize. As the world of scientific motion advanced rapidly during Burke's lifetime, he began to lose hope that symbolic action could keep up with it. We can see how important poetry and the symbolic motive was for him; he seemed to think it was a matter of life and death. This paper explores what it meant for Burke to seek a consummated life, and the implications that held for him and for us. In the end, the paper posits the importance of catharsis to society in terms of war and peace.

Gender has recently increased in relevance as a game analysis topic. Representations of masculinity and femininity in games have become a growing interest for scholars. Still, little has been written about representations of aging and older persons. Starting from this status-quo, we propose an analysis of age displays in a subtype of video games, namely casual art games. These are designed to encourage reflexivity and perspective-taking on a given topic, examining the human condition and offering a critical view of society. We examine several casual art games and we discuss how they depict and model older characters and the process of aging: What are the game-based narratives of aging? How are elderly characters portrayed and what place do they take in the emerging game story? How do game mechanics model the situation of 'old age' and the process of 'aging'?

This paper examines the unfelt, yet potent role of emojis in digital criminal discourse on a multimodal forensic linguistic scope. The use of emojis as a means of communication on the Internet is developing more and more widely, and the manifestations of its use in crimes related to threats, blackmail, and cyberbullying should be studied systematically. This study integrates semiotics, pragmatics, and forensic linguistics because they show how emojis are used as an undercover feature to convey threats, conceal intention, and avoid linguistic control by monitoring systems. The analysis of authentic samples of criminal messages on digital platforms, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and X, uses the concept of multimodal discourse analysis, which enables the researcher to trace semiotic patterns and communicate functions of emojis in illegitimate situations. Finally, the study will seek to establish a forensic framework that can contribute towards the interpretation of evidence based on emojis to improve the ability of law enforcement and digital forensic analysts in addressing the issues of cybercrime.

This study explores the evolving concept of academic integrity in light of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI tools that challenge traditional definitions rooted in honesty and responsibility. Employing a qualitative review of literature and case studies, it examines AI's potential to facilitate plagiarism, data fabrication, and misrepresentation, alongside its capacity to enhance scholarly productivity. Key findings reveal that AI's dual role-as both a threat and a resource-necessitates urgent policy reform, institutional guidelines, and educational initiatives to preserve academic trust. The study concludes that redefining academic integrity to integrate AI-specific standards is vital for safeguarding ethical scholarship. The added value lies in providing a comprehensive framework for institutions to balance innovation with integrity, ensuring responsible AI use in academia.

This article uses the lens of computer writing injuries to explore writing as an embodied activity. We use philosopher Mark Johnson's five-part definition of embodiment to develop an analysis that examines the physical, flesh-and-blood aspects of writing in addition to the social and cultural aspects of embodied activity. With this framework, we show the limits of purely technological solutions to writing injuries (like ergonomic keyboards) and explore the difficulties of including somatic training in the writing classroom. Rather than prescribing a single solution, we propose that these injuries require multifaceted infrastructural changes and point to the benefits of approaching writing with mindfulness. We conclude by suggesting ways that writing instructors and scholars can use this framework to rethink the role of the body in writing activity. The basis of all our forms of understanding is that given to us by our body's interactions with the world. Somatic understanding precedes all others, and persists while our symbolic forms of understanding develop, and it shapes those forms of understanding in profound and subtle ways. Understanding human cognition, then, requires our careful attentiveness to the body that is their foundation. We have attended to the body's role in our cultural lives and especially in education far too little.-Kieran Egan (2004, p. ix)

This study advances research on using language in online communication. It intended to analyze texting on WhatsApp in terms of linguistic and paralinguistic characteristics, the identity of interlocutors, and uses of emojis. Adopting a corpus-based approach to the study of language variation, data were collected from WhatsApp chat group of six male students enrolled in a Master"s program at a graduate school in the Midwestern region of the United States. A total of 195 messages were garnered over a period of three months. Results showed laudable features of online texting which are deviant of the formal English orthographically, morphologically, syntactically, and phonologically. This supports previous claims that texting has adversely affected the structure of formal language. It was also found that emojis were used to complement words, impose additional meaning that mere words cannot convey or supplant written forms. Additionally, the way interlocutors used text messages reveals information about their identities. It also gives clues about their cultural, religious, and educational backgrounds.

RESUMO Este trabalho objetiva realizar uma análise retórica acerca dos lugares da argumentação que fundamentaram o discurso teológico encontrado no Evangelho Segundo Lucas 19, 1-10. Esse texto bíblico apresenta o encontro entre o orador Jesus Cristo e o publicano Zaqueu. Assim, por Retórica, compreende-se o uso de técnicas argumentativas que visam persuadir; por discurso teológico, entende-se o uso de textos extraídos de livros considerados sagrados que falem sobre Deus. O discurso teológico toma como suporte textual a Bíblia, considerada um livro de expressiva importância para o Cristianismo. Metodologicamente, o trabalho filia-se a uma perspectiva qualitativa de análise retórica e embasa-se em Abreu (2009), Aristóteles (2011), Ferreira (2015), Meyer (2007), Perelman e Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014), Reboul (2004), Rocha (2020a, 2020b), entre outros. A partir da análise retórica, verificou-se que os lugares da argumentação foram decisivos para o ato de persuadir, no texto teológico destacado. Percebeu-se que o orador Jesus Cristo se serviu desses recursos retóricos (lugares argumentativos) para ganhar a confiança e persuadir o publicano Zaqueu.

ABSTRACT This work aims to carry out a rhetorical analysis about the places of argument that founded the theological discourse in the gospel according to Luke 19: 1-10. This biblical text presents the meeting between the speaker Jesus Christ and the publican Zacchaeus. Thus, Rhetoric is understood as the use of argumentative techniques that aim to persuade; Theological discourse means the use of texts extracted from books considered sacred about God. Theological discourse takes the Bible as a textual support, considered a book of significant importance for Christianity. Methodologically, the work is affiliated to a qualitative perspective of rhetorical analysis and is based on Abreu (2009), Aristóteles (2011), Ferreira (2015), Meyer (2007), Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014), Reboul (2004), Rocha (2020a, 2020b) works, among others. From the rhetorical analysis, it was found that the places of argument were decisive for the act of persuading in the highlighted theological text. It was noticed that the speaker Jesus Christ used these rhetorical resources (argumentative places) to gain confidence and persuade the publican Zacchaeus.

RESUMEN Este trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis retórico sobre los lugares de discusión que fundamentaron el discurso teológico que se encuentra en el Evangelio según Lucas 19, 1-10. Este texto bíblico presenta el encuentro entre el orador Jesucristo y el publicano Zaqueo. Así, por Retórica se entiende el uso de técnicas argumentativas que apuntan a persuadir; El discurso teológico significa el uso de textos extraídos de libros considerados sagrados que hablan de Dios. El discurso teológico toma como soporte textual la Biblia, considerada un libro de gran importancia para el cristianismo. Metodológicamente, el trabajo está afiliado a una perspectiva cualitativa de análisis retórico y se basa en Abreu (2009), Aristóteles (2011), Ferreira (2015), Meyer (2007), Perelman y Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014), Reboul (2004), Rocha (2020a, 2020b), entre otros. A partir del análisis retórico, se encontró que los lugares de discusión fueron decisivos para el acto de persuadir, en el texto teológico destacado. Se notó que el orador Jesucristo usó estos recursos retóricos (lugares argumentativos) para ganar confianza y persuadir al publicano Zaqueo.

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